[TheForge] pipe wrench mystery

Tue Sep 9 02:44:00 2003

I recall seeing a reference to "cramps" used to set up repetitive work 
in place and the drawing was the same sort of shape as described minus 
the teeth and threads. Any evidence of hammering them on and off?..Pete

Bruce Freeman wrote:

>Well, actually that is what you said in the first place.  I just wasn't so sure about it meaing what you MEANT.  
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>All that comes to mind is a C-clamp, non-adjustable variety.  But usually non-adjustable C-clamps are used with cross-wise wedges, between one of the flanges and the work ( to make them adjustable).  I suppose the weldments you describe could have been used as C-clamps, but it sounds like overkill.
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>Nor can I see how they could now be used for their original function � namely as jaws on stilson wrenches.  We may never know...
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>Bruce
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>When you say "pipe wrench movable jaws" do you mean JUST the L-shaped
>piece from a stilson wrench?
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>Right,  Just the l shaped pieces from two pipe wrenches, slanted groves for
>gripping the pipe on the short leg of the L and threads on the long leg of
>the L that would in a pipe wrench have the round knurled "nut" for adjusting
>the fit of the wrench.
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>I found several of these L-shaped pieces welded together Long leg to long
>leg with both short legs pointing the same direction so as to make a wide
>short "U" shape.  Boy wouold a picture be worth a lot of my words.  Anyway,
>I have no idea what they might have been used for, but I did bring home
>several non welded moveable pipewrench jaws to add to my collection of pipe
>wrench parts, one from a 48" wrench, which is bigger than I'd like to use.
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>Jeff Valentine, dancing this morning as the temp was 66 at 7AM.
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